Chronic stress

Occupational stress is a growing problem that results in substantial cost to individual employees and work organizations around the world (Hart & Cooper, 2001). Stress and occupational burnout can have harmful consequences. For the working individual stress and burnout can ultimately lead to illness, mood changes, alcohol use, and sleep disturbances in the short-term and perhaps even to cardiovascular disease as well as psychological disorders in the long term. According to Maslach (1993), the…

Hazards of School-induced Stress Depressed. Anxious. Fearful. Needy. These are all symptoms of students trapped in the vicious cycle, unable to escape school-induced stress. The responsibilities of completing schoolwork constantly consume students of all ages. School is stealing the rank as the number one priority for many teens. This may be seemingly positive, but it has negative effects overall. The stress of homework and the pressure to achieve outstanding grades is causing the good health…

women to determine the common stress and stressors they experience in their workplace. Researchers conducted various tests to come to an understanding of what causes the stressors and what coping strategies the women used to handle them. Study one; “Black women and how they cope with stress”, is a qualitative study done by researchers that used many focus groups to collect data from black women. This study evaluated what exactly it is about their workplace that causes stress and what are the…

of stress and yet for many people, they are living under extraordinary pressures and have no easy way seemingly to ease the pressures. Unfortunately in the current financial climate where people have to work harder, taking on extra jobs and having to juggle home and family life, pressures escalate. Stress is not a bad thing per se as it is a warning light to indicate that things are becoming too much but, the problems occur when these warning signs are ignored. The long term effects of stress…

In addition to the use of biofeedback mechanisms as interventional tools for reducing stress & anxiety, increasing the efforts aimed towards managing & minimizing the stressors that lead to those aversive emotional feelings of apprehension, helplessness, and a sense of threatened selfhood (Stuart 2013) are important preventative strategies to implement for stress reduction. “Stress” occurs from prolonged exposure to stressor elements such as external/internal threatening situations…

Psychological stress is related to the onset of a spectrum of diseases (Cohen, Janicki-Deverts, & Miller, 2007), but the underlying pathways linking stress with disease are not fully understood. Recently there has been increasing interest in exploring low-grade peripheral inflammation as a potential pathway, especially considering that inflammation is reliably induced by psychological stress and directly affects various organ systems in the body (Rohleder, 2014). Previous studies showed that…

Life is full of stress. According to Daniel Kirsch, Ph.D., president of the American Institute of stress, stress includes all psychological, physiological, and behaviors that how people react to their difficult situations (Lifer, 2013). There are many reasons that cause stress: work pressures, family issues, exams, …and everyone copes with stress differently, so the impacts of that are not the same for anyone as well. However, not all stresses are unhealthy. In some ways, stress brings many…

This article explores the prevalence of stress in the life of individuals and the ability for said individuals to manage, cope, and remedy stress related feedback mechanisms. An understanding of stress is presented in two major variables: (1) ones’ ability to cope with stressors as stress is introduced, (2) ones’ ability to manage stressors and the stress response. The writer argues that prolonged stress symptoms are often reactionary in nature, which are due to inappropriate coping mechanisms.…

Stress and the bodies stress response are an integral part of life. As everyday stress levels rise understanding the short and long-term effects of stress on the body becomes increasingly central to maintaining population health. The bodies stress response is regulated by two systems, the nervous system and the endocrine system. These systems are responsible for initiating the ‘flight or fight’ response in the body. The sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system form the…

Stress is known to influence people’s mood, behavior, health, and sense of well-being. Young people tend to have stress that does not affect their health. However, as an individual gets older or is not in shape, stress can have long term health effects. There have been extensive studies done to prove that stress is related to the development of some lifelong diseases. Neil Schneiderman’s article “Stress and Health: Psychological, Behavioral, and Biological Determinants” explains how over time,…